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Intended college enrollment and educational inequality: Do students lack information?

Peter, Frauke H.; Zambre, Vaishali - In: Economics of Education Review 60 (2017), pp. 125-141

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented in universities. In this regard, the economics literature has focused on the role of financial constraints as a cause of these observed differences in...

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015), pp. 56-82

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the effects of extracurricular music activities on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...

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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: Evidence from Italian manufacturing

Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 161-175

We exploit presumably exogenous variation in the availability of college-educated workers at the province level produced by a reform that increased the supply of higher education to estimate human capital production externalities for Italian manufacturing firms. We show that when the potential...

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Do children spend too much time in schools? Evidence from a longer school year in Indonesia

Parinduri, Rasyad A. - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 89-104

I examine the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978–1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find...

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Risks and returns to educational fields – A financial asset approach to vocational and academic education

Glocker, Daniela; Storck, Johanna - In: Economics of Education Review 42 (2014) C, pp. 109-129

Applying a financial assets approach, we analyze the returns and earnings risk of investments into different types of human capital. Even though the returns from investing in human capital are extensively studied, little is known about the properties of the returns to different types of human...

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The differential impact of compulsory schooling laws on school quality in the United States segregated South

Sansani, Shahar - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 64-75

white schools in the United States segregated South. I employ state-level data on length of school terms and pupil–teacher …

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The effect of Teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 113-125

TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged …

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Skills, productivity and the evaluation of teacher performance

Harris, Douglas N.; Sass, Tim R. - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 183-204

We examine the relationships between observational ratings of teacher performance, principals’ evaluations of teachers … are capturing different traits. While past teacher value-added predicts future value-added, principals’ subjective ratings … can provide additional information, particularly when prior value-added measures are based on a single year of teacher …

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Working (and studying) day and night: Heterogeneous effects of working on the academic performance of full-time and part-time students

Darolia, Rajeev - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 38-50

A growing number of students are working while in college and to a greater extent. Using nationally representative data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I analyze the effect of working on grades and credit completion for undergraduate students in the United States. Strategies...

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Incentives from curriculum tracking

Koerselman, Kristian - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 140-150

Curriculum tracking creates incentives in the years before its start, and we should therefore expect test scores to be higher during those years. I find robust evidence for incentive effects of tracking in the UK based on the UK comprehensive school reform. Results from the Swedish comprehensive...

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